Comments on: The Best Free RSS Reader for Mac OS X is NetNewsWire

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 14:31:26 +0000

Gruml is horribly buggy. Number counts don’t refresh — requires rebooting periodically. It’s pretty poor.

By: Markus

Markus — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:06:31 +0000

I think it’s crap that Apple removed RSS from mail. I only subscribed to a few RSS feeds, OSXDaily being one of them. Now I’m forced to download another app just to be able to read my three RSS subscriptions!?!?!?!

I wanted to look back at a previous OSXDaily post and couldn’t find it in mail… now I have to search the entire website for what I’m looking for, where I had it marked and easy to find in Mail.

Not too happy with Mountain Lion. :-/

By: RickF

RickF — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:29:54 +0000

NetNewsWire originally came from sources that were for a PC only software called FeedDemon that was originally written by Nick Bradbury.. I was a registered user probably >10 years ago and about 6-7 years ago (give or take) he sold the rights to it as I recall to the company that turned it into NNN and it looks as if it’s been sold again to another company now.. It looks identical to the old PC only FeedDemon product of 10 years ago.. Too bad nobody over there knows how to keep up with technology..

Also, I’m a paid “Reeder” user and it is OK but is far from my favorite reader — I hate the disappearing scrollbars the most.. Yuck!! I’m looking around for something else — that apparently is NOT in the AppStore! I’ll be trying out Vienna to see how it fares!

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:58:23 +0000

Reeder is a really good app! I recommend

By: tokyojerry

tokyojerry — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:20:12 +0000

I tried to make NetNewsWire sync with all my RSS feeds in Google Reader. It did not sync any of them for me except for about 6 items from one RSS feed. I must have at least 100 RSS feeds on Google Reader. Just FYI for any one considering to try this application. Reeder (paid version) no problem to sync with the same Google Reader account.

By: Nilesh Parmar

Nilesh Parmar — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:51:21 +0000

like like like, thanks for your facebook comment

By: Fischmuetze

Fischmuetze — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:35:20 +0000

It isn’t free – it’s Add-Ware. It’s old, unsupported, … AND to affirm a product as the best, it would be necessary to compare it with competitors … but there is nothing of it in the article
Gruml http://www.grumlapp.de could be one of the competitors, Vienna another

By: frin

frin — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:25:53 +0000

Personally I used Vienna until I switched to paid Reeder. It’s worth it.

Never liked NetNewsWire at all. I guess you only tried 1 RSS reader.

By: tom

tom — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 02:06:07 +0000

I tried netnewswire for a while, didn’t really like it. Currently using gruml. Simpler interface and option for vertical/horizontal partition between post list and article preview. It’s not updated that often too and the latest version sometimes hangs on wake from sleep. Otherwise it works quite well.

Looking for a better alternative though.

By: MacDan2004

MacDan2004 — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:57:51 +0000

I have used NetNewsWire for years. This week I tried Mixtab (on the Mac App Store). It’s a neat, elegant way to read feeds, especially those that contain a image in them. Very visual and fluid. Only thing it lacks for my taste at this point is a search feature to search across all feeds at once.

By: Elie

Elie — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:24:20 +0000

While NNN is still decent it havent had an update in months, which is starting to annoy me a bit.
The main reason I’ve stick with it was for the ability to automatically download attachments into a folder, I have yet to find a functional RSS reader that does that.

By: Ceveces

Ceveces — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:48:20 +0000

They have a good iPad app top. Reeder is also good.

By: alerm

alerm — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:47:10 +0000

Netnewswire is really good.
It SYNCS with google reader and in “combined view” it looks similar to google reader web interface, so you just have to scroll down to go between news. It’s a shame though that it isn’t updated anymore. I prefer it more than reeder which looks really good but is not very functional.

By: Dave Nottage

Dave Nottage — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:26:07 +0000

“Syncs with Google Reader or runs stand-alone..”

It was able to read my subscriptions from Google, but it didn’t sync which messages I’ve read/unread, otherwise it’d be a real winner!

By: Murat Ozgul

Murat Ozgul — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:05:04 +0000

My favorite is Vienna. Vienna is the best free alternative. Im using almost 4 years.